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"&lt;p&gt;Seven Rohingya people from a group of 65 seized by Myanmar authorities from a boat off the southern coast died of hunger, thirst and exposure, state media said Friday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On Monday, authorities detained a vessel near Pyapon township, around 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of commercial hub Yangon, said the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.&lt;/p&gt;.&lt;p&gt;“Four traffickers and 65 smuggled Bengalis were temporarily detained,” it said, using the term by which Rohingya are pejoratively referred to by many in Myanmar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Three men and four women later “died due to the bad weather and lack of food and water”, it said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Six others were still receiving medical treatment, while five men from the group “were detained so that they could be investigated and prosecuted under the law”, the newspaper added.&lt;/p&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled a military crackdown in Buddhist-majority Maynmar in 2017, arriving in neighbouring Bangladesh with harrowing stories of murder, rape and arson.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Rohingya still in Myanmar are widely seen as interlopers from Bangladesh and are largely denied citizenship, many rights and access to healthcare and education.&lt;/p&gt;. &lt;p&gt;Each year, hundreds make perilous, months-long boat journeys to other parts of Southeast Asia, often during the November-March period when the sea is safest for the small trawlers used by traffickers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Malaysia, a Muslim-majority nation, is the favoured destination as it hosts a sizeable Rohingya diaspora.&lt;/p&gt;"
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